Common-accounting ABANDONED

Scope

This library offers an easy way to produce and consume resource accounting data.

Design and implementation notes

The "common-accounting" library contains the resource accounting data-model, a producer to publish accounting data on the messaging broker and a consumer to retrieve them.

Data-model

The structure of a generic accounting record (Usage Record, UR) will be composed of a set of common fields for all resource types, in particular:

• id : an unique identifier for the UR
• consumerId : the user actually consuming the resource (optional, for future purposes)
• createTime : when the UR was created
• startTime, endTime : the time window the UR refers to
• resourceType : the type of resource the UR tracks
• scope : the scope of the resource
• resourceOwner : who owns the resource and/or who creates the UR

Furthermore, for each UR there will be a section to be filled with the specific properties per resource type (key-value pairs).

Resource Types

The resource types we've identified are: Execution, Service, Data-access and Storage.